Russian, Arabic, and French

This has been a pretty busy week. It's hard to remember everything that happened. First off, Sveta continues to do very well. We taught her a great lesson and she came to a couple activities.

On one day this past week we gave out a Book of Mormon in each French, Arabic, and Russian. We met a very interesting woman on the street who is on a BBC documentary called Ukraine's Forgotten Children. She talked a lot about some bad things happening to orphans and handicapped people. I will be looking more into that after my mission. She accepted a Book of Mormon and we prayed with her on the street. We then met an African from DR Congo whom I'd met playing sports. I testified to him in French and gave him a Book of Mormon in French. We had a note in the apartment that a man wanted a Book of Mormon in Arabic. We called him up and he invited us over. The address was the Islamic Cultural Center here in Odessa, so we went in and he showed us around. He's a sheikh and the imam here. It was pretty neat. Very kind man. He wants us to talk to the students there about our beliefs. He's very into interfaith relations. We gave him the book too, of course.

We also did some service shoveling for a member in another area. On another day we went and helped do some work inside for a youth center for handicapped people. It's completely funded by the people and apparently the first of its kind here. It was fun to help a cool cause like that along with a few other student volunteers.

Time is going so fast. I'm very grateful to be here and serve the Lord. I feel the Spirit witness of our words when we teach and testify of truth. It's a privilege to help people come unto Jesus Christ. This is His work. I love it.

- Elder J. Mahoney